This is a cry for help. All votes for the Engage Super League Dream Team have to be in by this Tuesday, and my thoughts are worryingly unpatriotic for a World Cup year. As things stand only five or possibly six of my final 13 are British, and one of them isn't available to Tony Smith's England squad this autumn. So any other suggestions, especially homegrown, are welcome before I submit my form to the Super League authorities over the next 24 hours.

As far as I know, the Dream Team is still determined by the votes of about 20 journalists, all of whom have to nominate their top three for each position based on Super League form throughout the season. While we're on the subject of who votes for what, wasn't it good to hear Paul Cullen talking such sense about the Man of Steel process which has been handed over to the players this season on Sky before the Wigan-Leeds game last Friday?

The former Warrington coach managed far more eloquently than I'd managed in a blog on the subject earlier this season to stress the need for accountability in the voting process for Super League's most coveted and prestigious individual award - although the package that preceded his comments was a bit misleading as it implied that play-off form will be crucial, whereas as I understand it the players' votes will be canvassed in the next couple of weeks, before the play-offs have even kicked off.

Still on the subject of accountability, and in answer to a snide comment that the aforementioned blog prompted, I should stress that I wasn't involved in the process last year and wouldn't have been in future in an attempt to reduce the self-loathing caused by holding unqualified opinions. Anyway, back to those Dream Team deliberations, and your chance to influence the Guardian votes.

Full-backs: Apologies to Paul Wellens, who has returned to the expected standards of reliability after a couple of uncharacteristic early-season blips, but for me the top two have been the brilliant Brent Webb, just ahead of Clint Greenshields of the Catalans. So that's two overseas players out of three so far.

Wings: Scott Donald, Leeds's previously unsung but increasingly appreciated import from Manly, wins hands down despite missing the last few games with injury. But struggling to split Ade Gardner of St Helens and Chris Hicks of Warrington for the second spot in the side.

Centres: It's Matt Gidley first, by some distance, and George Carmont second despite the most error-prone game I've seen him have in Wigan's defeat by Leeds last week. But this isn't necessarily such bad news for England. Keith Senior has been excellent for the Rhinos and may actually merit a place ahead of Carmont, and Martin Gleeson has had his moments for Warrington, while Michael Shenton of Cas is also worthy of a mention if not quite a vote in a competitive position.

Stand-offs: Hooray, has to be Leon Pryce, ahead even of the brilliant Catalans schemer Adam Mogg, with Danny McGuire an entertaining but distant third.

Scrum halves: Probably a bit unfair to Rob Burrow, who's been virtually ever present for Leeds and done loads of organising and tough defence below the radar. But the old stager Sean Long just pips him for my vote because of more memorable contributions such as his one-man destruction of Wigan in Cardiff, and the last-gasp drop goal against Warrington the other week. Thomas Bosc, Danny Orr and Danny Brough battling it out for third.

Props: Another World Cup cert is miles out in front, James Graham. On the other side of the front-row I find it impossible to split the old warhorses Jamie Peacock and Adrian Morley, so I'm going instead for Kylie Leuluai - another overseas selection. Sam Burgess was also in the running until his shoulder injury.

Hookers: For all the excellence of Keiron Cunningham and James Roby at St Helens, it's a toss-up for me between Chad Randall of Harlequins and Shaun Berrigan at Hull - with the latter's toughness in a struggling team just getting the nod.

Second-row: Unusually, I found this the trickiest position. Gone for Gareth Ellis first even though he hasn't consistently produced his brilliance from last year's play-offs, and alongside him Ben Galea, whose combination of industry and intelligence has taken the eye for Hull KR - and whose absence with injury in mid-season, when the under-rated Scott Murrell was also out, coincided with Rovers' worst run of the year. Clint Newton's also been good for the Robins and I suspect Jason Croker of Catalans would be harder to ignore if I'd seen more of the Dragons, while Joel Tomkins' improvement has offered real encouragement for Wigan.

Loose forwards: Very tricky to split Kevin Sinfield and Jon Wilkin, but leaning towards Sinfield because he's been virtually ever-present while Wilkin had an early-season injury. Henry Paul and Joe Westerman battling for third.

Monday morning heroes: Gateshead Thunder, for Thursday's stirring victory and even more impressive title celebrations - and that goes to all the backroom staff and supporters as well as the players; but also Doncaster, who contributed richly to a cracking game rather than rolling over meekly as must have been tempting, reflecting excellently on their coach Ellery Hanley who might just be my man of the year for his willingness to get on with an unglamorous job away from the limelight.